You have to admit, Bush did lower income taxes for the poor

zbdent

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Thu Apr-15-04 04:47 PM
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You have to admit, Bush did lower income taxes for the poor

You lose your job, you don't have any income.

No income, no income tax.

On that, he can admit that, yes, he did lower income taxes for millions of non-millionaires.

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MadHound

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Thu Apr-15-04 04:48 PM
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1. Actually, that isn't true

Unemployment and Social Security benefits can be taxed, thank you Bill Clinton.

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BostonTeaParty04

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Thu Apr-15-04 05:06 PM
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5. Believe me... a lot of people don't get UI or SS benefits...

Plenty!!!

(Clinton made those taxable??? Lord, the primary things that Clinton did that were contrary to the dem platform were real doozies.)

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Thu Apr-15-04 05:07 PM
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sadiesworld

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Thu Apr-15-04 05:13 PM
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9. Ahem, could someone remove this piece of filth?

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PsN2Wind

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Thu Apr-15-04 05:11 PM
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8. Actually that's t least partially

bullshit. Unemployment benefits became taxable under the Tax Reform Act of 1986. That would be RayGun.

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progressivejazz

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Thu Apr-15-04 06:10 PM
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10. The "thank you Bill Clinton" part is indeed

bullshit. Both were taxed before Clinton was in the White House. Clinton did increase the percentage of Social Security benefits that upper-income recipients had to pay taxes on, that's all. To make your argument you must be assuming that all Social Security recipients are upper-income. That may be the case in your circle of friends, but not mine.

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PsN2Wind

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Thu Apr-15-04 06:16 PM
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12. Thanks for the back-up

but apparently this is a hit and run poster. Probably off looking for something else to accuse Clinton of, and so, is too busy to try to support his obvious lie.

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ET Awful

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Thu Apr-15-04 04:48 PM
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2. LOL . . . as soon as I saw your title. . .

I was thinking exactly the same thing before I even clicked :)

If you ain't earnin' income, you ain't got income tax :)

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Dark

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Thu Apr-15-04 04:50 PM
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3. Sadly, it's too true.

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Paranoid_Portlander

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Thu Apr-15-04 05:04 PM
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4. This is the illogic that my aunt uses.

Her income has been severely reduced, thanks to Greenspan's (R) interest rates. So her taxes are reduced. She thinks Bush is wonderful because she received a refund on the overpayment of her taxes, the Bush tax cut, she calls it. I wonder how many other elderly people are similarly confused.

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blondeatlast

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Thu Apr-15-04 05:09 PM
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7. Careful, it will show iup in an ad next week.

Get thee to a copyright office for that thought.

The vast vastness are too ignorant to see the tricky logic in that statement, so it would make a perfect, if very false, ad.

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noiretextatique

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Thu Apr-15-04 06:14 PM
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11. you're right...no job, no income = no taxes

Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 06:15 PM by noiretblu

i did a few returns for folks here at work, and i saw the results of *'s tax changes.
most notably, a lot of early withdrawals from retirment plans = 10% penalty + tax

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